v0.94 May 2026
Marketing site launched
Sterling now has a public website with waitlist, admin panel, and three product families.
PRIVATE ALPHA · CLOSED BETA THIS SPRING
Sterling
Personal AI butler · May 2026
Talk to your computer.
It listens. It acts.
A personal AI butler with voice, sight, and action.
Yours from any Windows laptop, May 2026.
VoiceSightAction
Sterling Cloud · Coming May 2026
Frontier AI. Voice. Sight. Action.
Sterling Cloud runs on our infrastructure — the full butler from any Windows laptop. No GPU needed.
Coming May 2026
Cloud Lite
Frontier AI
$24.99
CAD / 4 weeks
500K tokens
- ✓Voice, sight, and action
- ✓British butler personality
- ✓Works on any Windows laptop
- ✓Encrypted in transit
★ Most Popular
Coming May 2026
Cloud Pro
Frontier AI
$49.99
CAD / 4 weeks
1.5M tokens
- ✓Everything in Lite
- ✓3× the monthly token quota
- ✓Best value for daily use
Coming May 2026
Cloud Elite
Priority access
$89.99
CAD / 4 weeks
3.5M tokens
- ✓Everything in Pro
- ✓Priority queue at peak times
- ✓For power users
Coming May 2026
Cloud Ultimate
Priority access
$139.99
CAD / 4 weeks
~10M tokens (fair-use)
- ✓Everything in Elite
- ✓Effectively unlimited daily use
- ✓Top-tier priority
All tiers launch May 2026. Pricing locked at the values shown for waitlist members at launch.
What Sterling does
What Sterling does.
Voice. Sight. Action. The three things every butler should master.
Voice
Push to talk.
Anywhere on your PC.
Hold Ctrl+Shift+Spacefrom any app — Sterling listens, then answers in a calm British voice. Streaming sentence by sentence, so you hear the first word before he’s finished thinking.
Memory
Remembers what matters.
Sterling adapts to your name, preferences, and conversation style. Memory is stored locally on your drive, in your user profile — yours to read, copy, or delete.
Music
Runs your music.
Spotify play, pause, skip, volume — all by voice. Sterling ducks the music when speaking and brings it back when done. The kind of small thing a real butler would do.
Inbox
Reads. Summarizes. Schedules.
Google Calendar and Gmail, integrated. Sterling reads your inbox, surfaces what matters, and books meetings — all by voice.
Sight
Sees your screen.
Ask Sterling to “click the play button” or “type my email in the search box.” A vision model grounds every action in what’s actually on screen — no fragile coordinate scripts, no recorded macros.
Apps
Opens what you ask for.
Open any Windows app by name. Sterling uses your machine the way you do — no cloud sync, no copies leaving your drive.
Character
“Of course, sir. Right away.”
Sterling speaks with dry British wit, quiet competence, and unwavering loyalty. No “happy to help!” No corporate pleasantries. A real butler. The kind you'd find at a London estate.
The Real Difference
Your data never leaves
your machine.
Sterling has no cloud, no telemetry, no usage logs sent home. The model runs on your GPU. Your memory lives on your drive in your Windows user profile — nothing uploaded, nothing synced. If your internet drops, Sterling keeps working. If you cancel tomorrow, you still have everything that mattered.
Other AI assistants
- ×Conversations live in their cloud
- ×Your prompts may train their models
- ×If they shut down, your memory dies with them
- ×You can never see what they actually have
Sterling Local
- ✓Everything stays on your hard drive
- ✓The model runs locally on your GPU
- ✓If Sterling vanishes, your files remain
- ✓Memory lives in your Windows user profile, not the cloud
Sterling lives where it matters.
Sterling runs on the graphics card in your machine. Not in a datacenter. Not behind an API. Not on a rented GPU somewhere. When you ask Sterling a question, the answer is computed on hardware you already paid for.
The conversations you have with Sterling don't travel anywhere. The memories you give it sit in plain markdown files in your Documents folder — you can open them in Notepad and read every single one. The model that thinks for you is a file on your drive. If your internet goes out, Sterling is still there. If you stop paying tomorrow, you still have everything.
When you tell Sterling about your week, you are the only one who hears it. When you ask Sterling to remember something personal, it goes into a file only you can open. When you decide you're done, you delete a folder and it's gone — no support tickets, no data export requests, no emails trying to win you back.
Sterling is a butler, not a service. It works for you, not for the company that made it. That's not a marketing angle — that's the entire technical architecture.
Walkthrough
A day with Sterling.
What it actually feels like, minute to minute.
7:45 AM
Morning briefing
Good morning Sterling
Sterling
Good morning. Three calendar items today, two emails marked important, and it's 4°C with light rain expected by noon. Shall I read the important mail?
9:30 AM
A note to future self
Remember that Sarah called about the Q2 filing. She needs the revised invoices by Thursday.
Sterling
Noted. I'll remind you Wednesday afternoon.
12:10 PM
Screen read
What's on my screen?
Sterling
A financial spreadsheet titled Q2 Summary. The total in cell F24 is $47,320.
3:45 PM
Memory recall
What did I tell you about Sarah last week?
Sterling
Sarah is your contact at the accounting firm. You noted she prefers phone calls over email.
5:30 PM
End of day
Summarize today for me.
Sterling
You completed three calendar items, sent four emails, and asked me to remember two things. Nothing outstanding from the morning list.
11:00 PM
Offline
Your internet is out. Sterling still works. Every tool, every memory, every response — all of it, local.
Privacy alternative · Available now
Or run Sterling on your own hardware.
Sterling Local — for users with an NVIDIA RTX GPU who want everything to stay on their machine. No cloud, no telemetry, nothing leaves your PC.
Sterling Local
Subscription
$19.99CAD
per 4 weeks · 13 cycles per year
- ✓Fully local AI — your data never leaves the machine
- ✓Push-to-talk from any app (Ctrl+Shift+Space)
- ✓Sees your screen, controls your apps by description
- ✓Spotify with smart music ducking
- ✓Reads Gmail, manages Google Calendar
- ✓Memory stored locally on your drive
- ✓British butler personality
- ✓All future updates included
First 500 only
Founder’s Edition
Lifetime access
$249.99CAD
one-time · no recurring charge
- ✓Lifetime Sterling Local — no subscription, ever
- ✓Every future update, forever
- ✓Founder badge inside Sterling
- ✓Your name in the launch credits
- ✓Up to 3 computers per license
Sterling Local needs Windows 10 or 11, 16 GB RAM, and an NVIDIA RTX GPU with 8 GB VRAM minimum (12 GB recommended). Not sure if your PC qualifies? Run the compatibility checker.
Sterling Cloud · Coming May 2026
Join the Sterling Cloud waitlist.
Be first when Sterling Cloud opens in May 2026. We’ll send a single email when it’s ready — no spam, no marketing.
No spam. One note when Cloud opens.
Questions
Things people ask.
Cloud runs on our infrastructure — no GPU needed, works on any Windows laptop. Local runs entirely on your PC's NVIDIA RTX GPU — your data never leaves your machine. Same butler, different homes. Cloud opens May 2026; Local is launching now.
What's new
Recent progress.
v0.83 May 2026
Push-to-talk voice pipeline
Ctrl+Shift+Space global hotkey, Whisper STT, Kokoro TTS with British butler voice.
v0.72 May 2026
Butler personality fine-tune
Sterling's flagship butler brain trained on dry-witted British butler responses.
Sterling Local · Early access
Reserve your spot.
Sterling launches soon. Reserve your spot — one note when it's ready.
No spam. No marketing emails. Just one note when beta opens.